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creating smart folders/dividers?by keb - 04:29PM, Jun 04, 2009 |
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Is there a way to make something similar to a smart folder in notebook? I’ve been searching for an alternative to Journler, and Notebook seems pretty good, but it seems to be missing this key feature. I’d like to create dividers that automatically collect entries with certain keywords or tags. Any suggestions? |
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Have you given a look at the Multidex? I suspect this is similar to what you are looking for.
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NoteBook uses a different paradigm than Journler and other apps. Those apps are more freeform sacks of single “pages” of some sort, which are then tagged and assembled into groups. NoteBook is more structured—it is designed to mimic a notebook, not an inbox or a grab-bag. As such, it pretty much requires that you place your information (notes) where you want them, instead of creating information and then having it copied to all the places you would like it to appear. This, in turn, requires you to set up a Notebook or Notebooks to meet your needs, so that when you create information you can place it (file it) in the right spot—that is, in the right section of the right Notebook. Note that your unit of information can be a cell, a page, a section, or a Notebook, that none of these is limited in size, and that you can select any of these units of information to match your goal at hand. To move to the specific: if you have been using Journler as a journal, you might create a new NoteBook called “My Daily Thoughts” and add a new page for each day, using the date stamp to title each page. You could gather each month’s pages into sections. Or you could create a page each Monday at the start of the week, and simply create new cells as needed. You could have “create dates” shown to see when each cell was added. Then start a new page next week. If you also have in Journler a diary of work you are doing, you could create a second NoteBook called “My Work Project Notes”. Or you could simply create one Notebook called “My Thick Book 2009” in which you have sections for work and for not-work. Some of the great power of NoteBook can be found in this elastic flexibility—NoteBook is very customizable. If your goal is to end up with pages of information organized in some kind of notebook or journal format, it is invaluable. If, on the other hand, you are looking for a giant drop-card system, other databases will work better. For my needs, the choice was clear. Learning and using NoteBook has helped me personally and professionally. I recommend it.
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ptram
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12:38AM, Jun 05, 2009